I still can't believe Lieberman's war mongering Iran Resolution was passed by the Senate UNANIMOUSLY!? As a third U.S. Aircraft Carrier heads for the Persian Gulf to threaten Iran, I have to wonder what the hell did they think they were accomplishing with Lieberman's saber rattling Resolution??
...Since the US Senate has in its wisdom laid the groundwork for a war on Iran on the extremely thin grounds of an unbalanced and gullible NYT story, it is worth pondering the degree to which we are being spun once again by shadowy forces whose salaries we are paying!...
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Led By Joe Lieberman the Democratic Senate has just played right into dick Cheney's hands. This Resolution gives Chenry/Bush the political cover they need to move the U.S. toward an attack on Iran, all based on some very thin evidence coming out of the Pentagon.
Never mind that the U.S. is providing a safe haven in northern Iraq for the P.J.A.K. Terrorist Group that operates across the Iraqi border inside Iran.
Pejak enjoying western support (PressTv, Iran, July 11, 2007):
Head of Pejak (PJAK) terrorist group says he has good relations with the U.S. and German governments and they know everything about the group. Abdul Rahman Haji-Ahmadi who lives in Cologne, Germany told German ARD television network that he directs Pejak from Germany. "Big powers help our military stations and American army generals completely overlook our activities", he added.
Haji-Ahmadi pointed out that some U.S. generals even visit Pejak's military camps and have good ties with Pejak. He noted that the presence of Pejak in Iraq is even useful for the U.S. because "if Pejak does not rule, Islam will rule". Haji-Ahmadi in a similar interview with the Kurdish newspaper Media had acknowledged that some U.S. senators and generals had met with Pejak leaders in Iraq's Qandil region. . .
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And never mind that the Iranian Government has long supported the Iraqi Kurds.
The Irbil raid, which took place in the middle of the night back in January, illustrates how murky that influence is. U.S. officials claim that the five Iranians arrested are Quds Force members without diplomatic status. But Jafari, recounting his version of the incident for the first time, claims that U.S. troops didn't understand the nature of the Iranian outpost they had targeted. "The Iraqi president [Jalal Talabani] invited us to go there to hold talks with them, so it's very surprising the American forces did this," Jafari said. "The people they arrested had been in Irbil for 15 years. The Iranian building was a very official building."
His account is backed by Iraqi officials who contend the Americans are now too embarrassed to admit their error. The Iranians were not ordinary diplomats, but they were part of a defense-and-security alliance with Tehran that the Kurds themselves—America's closest friends in Iraq—have welcomed since Saddam's time. The high-level Iraqi official said the raid was an ill-conceived attempt to act on President Bush's orders late last year to "interdict Iranian agents in Iraq." He says: "We don't want to embarrass the Americans. But it was a botched attempt. And they went after these innocent guys. As simple as that. And now they're stuck. And we've kept quiet." (U.S. officials in Baghdad deny this, saying one of those detained had explosive residue on his hands.)
A Revolutionary Guards commander turned diplomat says Washington is ignoring a key asset in Iraq: Iran.
The U.S. military buildup in the Persian Gulf is already raising tensions:
Nearly half of the U.S. Navy's 277 warships are stationed close to Iran, alongside most of Tehran's estimated 140 naval surface ships and six submarines, according to GlobalSecurity.org. More than five dozen aircraft are aboard the Stennis, along with dozens more aboard the Nimitz, another U.S. aircraft carrier in the gulf.
U.S., Iran do Persian Gulf squeeze
Here's more on the Senate's knee jerk saber rattling.
Iran Resolution
While most of these elements have been diaried in recent days I thought they needed to be brought together. Call your Senator's office and demand an explanation of the evidence they based their votes on.
Have our Senators learned NOTHING from the last four years?